...yeah, that's all it boils down to: feelings. No matter how much cold logic and reason you approach most things in life with including built spaces, somewhere deep down within you, or to the more spontaneous of us - quite instantly, they do evoke and inspire feelings and that's all it takes for you to 'like' or 'dislike' or just be plain comfortable with the space you live in, work, shop or visit.
Spaces that one dislikes are aplenty. I'm talking about all those lovely built spaces that have an atmosphere about them and feel special or at least make you feel good to be there. They have a character that asserts itself and yet unobtrusively recedes into the background when you use the space making you feel like the space is your second skin. A lot of it has to do with how you perceive the space and how the creator of the space manipulates it to make you feel the way he's intended the design to work for its users. Incidentally, in a design lecture I attended recently, one of my professors had something similar to say. Built spaces have to feel right to be lived in and enjoyed.
It also feels nice to have an affirmation of one's design ideology.
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